Digital ethnographies: Ethics of online research and social media spaces

The Digital Humanities Collaborative will host a talk on Feb. 23, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. in the library, room 376 by Dr. Juli Gittinger, assistant professor of South Asian Religions, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Liberal Studies.

In this presentation, Dr. Juli Gittinger will briefly introduce the idea of digital ethnography (and its relationship to “traditional” ethnography) and how, as a discipline/tool, it has evolved in the various ages of the Internet. She will then show a range of methods or tools that one might employ, drawing from some of her own work and then focus on the more perilous territory of social media—particularly the potential ethical issues that might arise and how to address them in an Institutional Review Board or methodology section of your research.   

Dr. Gittinger has engaged the digital public sphere for a number of her publications, including her first book Hinduism and Hindu Nationalism Online (Routledge 2019) and more recently with a forthcoming book American Apocalyptic (Palgrave 2024). She has also written on digital hermeneutics and mapping digital neighborhoods.   

Registration is requested.

This event is co-organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning.